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...Other U.S. winners: Sinclair Lewis. Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck, T. S. Eliot (a British citizen), William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway...
...18th largest U.S. oil company, has 4,600 service stations in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona, and controls about 10% of the gasoline market in those states. But never since it came out of bankruptcy has it tried to spread eastward again. Similarly, Sinclair (the nation's ninth largest oil company) and Cities Service (tenth) have stayed out of western markets almost entirely on the avowed ground that the costs of pipelining gas and oil over the Rockies would be prohibitive. Along with this lack of direct competition, the Government also objects to the fact that...
Watson. President J. Edwin Warren, General Counsel Henry L. O'Brien) and two Sinclair officers (Chairman Percy C. Spencer. President Edward L. Steiniger...
...suit, the Government sought no fines or jail sentences for the defendants, who included the five interlocking directors as well as the companies. Instead, the Justice Department hoped only to force Sinclair and Cities Service to sell their Richfield stock and surrender their seats on the Richfield board. But the defendants, who denied any conspiracy, pointed out that their arrangement had been specifically approved by a federal court...
...violent legends of the West Virginia mining country, and he knows also how a small American town of 40 years ago could fester in its isolation. But is it possible, this late in the century, to pay off personal debts of anger and love to such a town, as Sinclair Lewis did in Main Street? The immense force of Grubb's writing is flung against enemies long since weakened or dead-boosterism, Babbittry, ignorant refusal to vaccinate schoolchildren. He might as well have written a passionate parable in favor of rural electrification. The Voices of Glory. which should have...